Books, Arts & Manners: I Am Woman, Hear Me Whine

Bridget Jones’s Diary, by Helen Fielding (Viking, 271 pp., $22.95)

WHAT would Gloria Steinem do if she met Bridget Jones and started chatting with her? Would Miss Steinem blanch, faint, walk away in disgust? That’s a meeting I’d like to see, but, alas, it will never happen, because Bridget is fictional.